Military Quotes
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For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "Savior of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. (Quote by - Air Force Motto)
So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. (Quote by - Mao Zedong)
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. (Quote by - General George Catlett Marshall)
Conquest is the missionary of valoor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
Military men are the scourges of the world (Quote by - Guy de Maupassant)
I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used. (Quote by - Al Gore)
Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between (Quote by - Evan Bayh)
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. (Quote by - Karl Von Clausewitz)
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. (Quote by - Mao Zedong)
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war. (Quote by - Barbara Tuchman)
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that. (Quote by - General Norman Schwarzkopf)
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. (Quote by - Vaclav Havel)
I am concerned about a society that has demonstrably lost confidence in its institutions, in the government, in the press, in the church, in the military - as well as in business. (Quote by - George Cabot)
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight. (Quote by - Barry Goldwater)
Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing (Quote by - Navy Quote)
Stay alert, stay alive. (Quote by - Motto of the U.S. First Infantry Division in Vietnam)
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats. (Quote by - Josephus Daniels)
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. (Quote by - David Friedman)
The side with the simplest uniforms wins. (Quote by - Maj Mark Cancian)
I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police. (Quote by - John Howard)
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology (Quote by - Rebecca West)
The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along. (Quote by - Richard Armitage)
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils. (Quote by - Louis Mountbatten)
When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manuever, the blow with an agreement. (Quote by - Leon Trotsky)
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military. (Quote by - Bill Clinton)
We learned how to shoot. I guess that was the best part. It was a lot of fun [on military service] (Quote by - Shahar Peer)
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. (Quote by - Georges Clemenceau)
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. (Quote by - Georges Clemenceau)
A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow. (Quote by - George S. Patton)
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. (Quote by - General George S. Patton)
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to give the roar. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty. (Quote by - Douglas Macarthur)
We won't always have the strongest military. (Quote by - Howard Dean)
Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege. (Quote by - Yasser Arafat)
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. (Quote by - Louis Simpson)
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty. (Quote by - Douglas Macarthur)
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. (Quote by - Douglas Macarthur)
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. (Quote by - General MacArthur)
Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen (Quote by - William Henry)
Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!! (Quote by - William Wallace, "Braveheart")
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States. (Quote by - Zack De La Rocha)
We will either find a way, or make one. (Quote by - Hannibal)
I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos. (Quote by - Bo Gritz)
A different type of education came when as a member of a medical corps in the National Guard I spent several weeks in a military camp in California. (Quote by - Paul D Boyer)
Neither the course of the war itself nor the military lessons to be drawn from it can properly be comprehended. (Quote by - Douglas Haig)
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
Live for something rather than die for nothing.(Quote by - George Patton)
The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow. (Quote by - Yakubu Gowon)
